‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4’ gets fiercely festive new trailer – WATCH
Can you hear those slay-belles ring?
By Will Stroude
You better hark, b*tches, because RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4 is fully embracing its new Christmas timeslot.
The special edition series, which will see 10 iconic former contestants return for a place in the Drag Race Hall of Fame, is set to kick off on 14 December, and producers have enlisted the New York Gay Men’s Chorus for a fiercely festive teaser video.
The newly-released trailer gives us another chance to see Monét X Change, Latrice Royale, Trinity Taylor, Farrah Moan, Valentina, Monique Heart, Jasmine Masters, Naomi Smalls, Gia Gunn, and Manila Luzon as the choir sing a special ‘Carol of The Queens’.
Helping RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley and Ross Matthews judge our new batch of All Stars will be US Olympic freeskier and former Attitude cover star Gus Kenworthy, Love, Simon’s Keiynan Lonsdale, British pop singer Rita Ora, Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo, Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffman and singer Ciara.
Also joining the judging panel will be Fantastic Beasts actress Zoë Kravitz, Saturday Night Live‘s Cecily Strong, singer Kacey Musgraves, Black-ish star Kenifer Lewis, designer Jason Wu, former Community star Yvette Nicole Brown, as well as actress Erica Ash, New York nightlife queen Susanne Bartsch, and model Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
Viewers will also get a holiday treat this year whenRuPaul’s Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular airs a week before All Stars 4 on Friday 7 December on VH1.
The one-hour holiday-themed episode will bring back franchise favorites including Eureka O’Hara, Jasmine Masters, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Mayhem Miller, Shangela, Sonique, and Trixie Mattel as they compete for the title of America’s first Drag Race Xmas Queen.
All Stars 4 premieres with a special 90-minute episode on Friday 14 December at 8/7c on VH1 in the US, and on Comedy Central at 1.30am the following day in the UK.